💠U.S. Campuses Brace for Return of Pro-Palestine Protests(3)💠
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💠U.S. Campuses Brace for Return of Pro-Palestine Protests(3) 💠
Even as Hashemi praised Georgetown administrators for keeping an open line of communication with students and faculty, he said this year could be difficult.
“This could be a very long academic year given the situation in Gaza is getting steadily worse,” he said.
As college administrators began looking ahead to the fall, so too were students.
At VCU, where police arrested 13 protesters while dispersing an encampment on the Richmond campus last spring, demonstrators are holding a weekly “Chalk the Plaza” and organizing other events aimed at attracting first-years.
They are also creating frequent Instagram reels, recapping the spring protests and criticizing Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), who they accused of “crush[ing] student dissent” by supporting the breakup of the encampment. (The governor had pledged in the spring that his administration would support colleges to keep them safe.)
One Instagram account, called notwelcomeatvcu, told first-years they should be prepared for action in a post also shared by the university’s SJP chapter.
“VCU admin wants us to forget about last semester,” it wrote, “but there is far too much dirt to be swept under the rug.”
Meanwhile, some students at George Washington University and beyond say they are also hoping to keep attention on that campus. In the spring, student protesters across the region chose to focus on GWU, pointing to its location in the nation’s capital and the university’s record of what they called “silencing opposition” to the Israel-Gaza war. For example, they noted the university had suspended its SJP chapter last fall for projecting pro-Palestinian slogans onto a campus library.
“GW was selected not just because of its centrality to other campuses, but because its administration had gone especially far in repressing the SJP and JVP chapters there,” said Hershel Barnstein, a fifth-year student at the University of Maryland and a JVP organizer.
Over the summer, students said they continued to protest in the District and in Richmond. They also said they talked with people involved in past student movements to try to learn new tactics to pressure the university.
Some of the students arrested in the spring spent the summer tied up in the legal system, including several who faced court orders to stay away from the GWU campus.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has labeled GWU as one of three “institutions of particular concern,” for “targeting” pro-Palestinian protesters. The university did not respond to a request for comment on CAIR’s classification.
💠U.S. Campuses Brace for Return of Pro-Palestine Protests(3) 💠
Even as Hashemi praised Georgetown administrators for keeping an open line of communication with students and faculty, he said this year could be difficult.
“This could be a very long academic year given the situation in Gaza is getting steadily worse,” he said.
As college administrators began looking ahead to the fall, so too were students.
At VCU, where police arrested 13 protesters while dispersing an encampment on the Richmond campus last spring, demonstrators are holding a weekly “Chalk the Plaza” and organizing other events aimed at attracting first-years.
They are also creating frequent Instagram reels, recapping the spring protests and criticizing Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), who they accused of “crush[ing] student dissent” by supporting the breakup of the encampment. (The governor had pledged in the spring that his administration would support colleges to keep them safe.)
One Instagram account, called notwelcomeatvcu, told first-years they should be prepared for action in a post also shared by the university’s SJP chapter.
“VCU admin wants us to forget about last semester,” it wrote, “but there is far too much dirt to be swept under the rug.”
Meanwhile, some students at George Washington University and beyond say they are also hoping to keep attention on that campus. In the spring, student protesters across the region chose to focus on GWU, pointing to its location in the nation’s capital and the university’s record of what they called “silencing opposition” to the Israel-Gaza war. For example, they noted the university had suspended its SJP chapter last fall for projecting pro-Palestinian slogans onto a campus library.
“GW was selected not just because of its centrality to other campuses, but because its administration had gone especially far in repressing the SJP and JVP chapters there,” said Hershel Barnstein, a fifth-year student at the University of Maryland and a JVP organizer.
Over the summer, students said they continued to protest in the District and in Richmond. They also said they talked with people involved in past student movements to try to learn new tactics to pressure the university.
Some of the students arrested in the spring spent the summer tied up in the legal system, including several who faced court orders to stay away from the GWU campus.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has labeled GWU as one of three “institutions of particular concern,” for “targeting” pro-Palestinian protesters. The university did not respond to a request for comment on CAIR’s classification.
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